Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: landman@eng.sun.com (Howard A. Landman) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: STM nuclear reactions Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 23:13:22 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 14 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu In article toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes: >The discussion about STM makes me wonder whether anyone is planning on watching >individual atoms decay? Imagine putting down some radioactively labeled DNA >and observing the 32P go boom! How about *listening*? You could leave the probe tip on a radioactive atom and use a fast digital oscilloscope to capture the trace when it decays, then frequency-shift those samples and play them back at audio rates. Of course, it might be so fast it would just sound like a click. -- Howard A. Landman landman@eng.sun.com -or- sun!landman